surviving a long Zombie attack

How long do you think you could survive in your home during a Zombie attack and what do you have that would allow you to survive. Personally I could only go about 2 weeks then I would have to leave my home but I have plenty of weapons for takeing the fight to the Zombies so staying in my home has never been my plan.

hmmm. It depends. If whatever it is that is making the zombies affects animals, I'm pretty much screwed. The rat is psycho as is so if he bites me and he's infected I'll only figure it out when I turn into a brain-muncher.

But in my house? I probably wouldn't stay very long because I live in a suburban area. I have friends who already have a group set up and my brother has an in with a gun shop so... We'll be pretty well-stocked when it comes to weapons :D

I'm a pirate captain werewolf elf!
"Aside from being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal. "
"... She paints, she reads, she sets things on fire."

I don't believe in Zombies, so I don't think about that stuff.

But IF they did exist, I'd nuke 'em all to hell and be done with it.

Well the normal human is OK for approx 40 days without eating.  So..given the food in the house and my cleverly disguised personal onboard food storage system I reckon I am good for a few months.  But I don't know why I would hide from a zombie. 

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."  Thomas Jefferson to George Washington. 1796

Josickle


hmmm. It depends. If whatever it is that is making the zombies affects animals, I'm pretty much screwed. The rat is psycho as is so if he bites me and he's infected I'll only figure it out when I turn into a brain-muncher.

But in my house? I probably wouldn't stay very long because I live in a suburban area. I have friends who already have a group set up and my brother has an in with a gun shop so... We'll be pretty well-stocked when it comes to weapons :D

This hypothetical situation were assuming the Z virus wont affect anything but humans.

bbbb


I don't believe in Zombies, so I don't think about that stuff.

But IF they did exist, I'd nuke 'em all to hell and be done with it.

How are you going to nuke them are you the president or a mad scientist making nukes in your basement. No gov is going to just nuke there own cites and towns. Nobody is saying Zombies are real but you have to agree it would be possible for some Virus in the near future could turn people into something Zombie like and even if it never happens Zombies are fun to talk about.

dlyn454


Well the normal human is OK for approx 40 days without eating.  So..given the food in the house and my cleverly disguised personal onboard food storage system I reckon I am good for a few months.  But I don't know why I would hide from a zombie. 

"You might be a survivalist if you have emergency rations for your pets; and consider your pets to be emergency rations."

Also- are they fast or slow zombies? Squishy or normal?

"There is nothing in the universe cold steel won`t cut."

    -Conan of Cimmeria in "Beyond the Black River" by R.E. Howard

Part is mindset.  Everything in this world is either preditor or prey.  As a human you get to choose.  I choose preditor. 

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."  Thomas Jefferson to George Washington. 1796

Harlech

dlyn454


Well the normal human is OK for approx 40 days without eating.  So..given the food in the house and my cleverly disguised personal onboard food storage system I reckon I am good for a few months.  But I don't know why I would hide from a zombie. 

"You might be a survivalist if you have emergency rations for your pets; and consider your pets to be emergency rations."

Also- are they fast or slow zombies? Squishy or normal?

A virus that turns people into Zombies will mess the bran up so bad they wont know how to run so for this scenario we will say they are slow. Squishy or normal will depend on decomposition rate.

In Hong Kong, if there ever will be a Zombie Outbreak, i guess I am Doom. Coz we got no access to guns or any heavy artillary.

I guess most of the Asia will be doom. I will be doom for sure! But i will not go without a fight!! U will see me hacking heads of Zombies before i go.

If I roll down the steel stormblinds I am set for life... ok, for many months at least. But I'd need to go out into the garden to hack off zombie heads for morning calisthenics.

hmm... since we are talking about slow, normal to squishy zombies-- human only, then i think, with my current set up we could hold out for a few months before we had to abandon our house and move out into the country.  we have lots of non perishable food items such as rice and beans, lots of reserve bottled water, and tablets to purify water, and lots of first aid accoutrements.  but, like dlyn, i dont think i would feel the need to hide away, unless there were just hoards and hoards of zombies coming all at once. 

Hordes seem to be the only thing zombies have going.  Even as a little kid I was never impressed with The Mummy.  Us little terrors would have just tripped him and set his wrappings on fire.   Other than the Horror of being 'Undead"  hes got nothing.   Staying holed up just seems to ensure the horde one day surrounds you.  Rather go out and test various implements on zombies one or two at a time.  As Philwar says--for morning calisthenics.  Instead of cutting mats.  Avoid the horde or circle it like wolves on cattle and pick off the strays.
Seems to me a good tactic in dealing with Evil Beings, is to avoid movie situations.  Its like the girl being pursued by the slasher---Stay out of the shower !!!!  Don't wear high heels !!! 
 

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."  Thomas Jefferson to George Washington. 1796

I like the zombies from "28 days later" and its sequel. They are SO ferociously aggressive and insanely angry, so much scarier. Love those two movies.
But they'd be almost impossible to fight. If zombies were like that (almost immediate infection, fast as hell, totally agressive, just as hard to kill as a slow zombie) then mankind would indeed be in a heap of trouble.

yeah. Things that move fast and erratic make me nervous.  Don't like mice. :)

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."  Thomas Jefferson to George Washington. 1796

If the Zombie end up being able to run and do other things people are able to do like use weapons there is no way in hell I will stand and fight. I am just going to head back to the Rocky Mountains and hide till I here its safe again which I doubt it will ever be safe again unless we develop some kind of bio weapon.

if it's a virus that reanimates dead things/they have to die for it to take effect, wait it out after you find somewhere safe.... come summer it'll stink but no more zombies!

If it just makes people go psycho... Target practice time!

I'm a pirate captain werewolf elf!
"Aside from being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal. "
"... She paints, she reads, she sets things on fire."

Zombies… this has been a topic of morbid curiosity for me for about 2 decades. If you all would give me a moment to tell you a story, you might get a bit of entertainment. I will say at first, I have never seen nor do I believe in the dead rising from the grave to do harm to the living. Biologically it cannot happen. Now many years ago when I was a teen my best friend and I were watching Night of the Living Dead, the one from the 80’s where the aliens dropped the can of ET urine or what ever it was and thus you had a horror movie. Half way through the movie I heard my grandma who was walking past the couch while my friend I were debating on the likely hood of finding aliens, or zombies in woods behind the house. She just chuckled and said , no you don’t need aliens or radiation to get zombies, just the proper combination of neural inhibiters. My Grandma, was not your typical white haired little old lady. She held a 2 PhDs one in Neuroscience and the other in Behavioral Pharmacology, and at the time of her retirement she was a full bird Colonel in the Air Force. One of the projects she told me about years later(well after it was declassified) was something we saw on the news back in 05. Uncle Sam wanted a new chemical weapon nicknamed the “Gay Bomb” . it was a real project, and grandma was part of it . They finally concluded that it was a no go. Apparently sexual desire is not as basic a function to be controlled by a chemical stimulant. She said that Fear, Euphoria, Pain and Hunger are the main driver to the human machine, and with a compound known as L.S.D. and certain neural inhibiters, they could get a sheep really drunk, paranoid, or turn it carnivorous for a short time. Usually the animals pituitary gland would burn out and the test animals would die fairly quickly once drugged, but hey, for a sheep that is stoned of its @$$ to want to eat you, 12 hours can be a long time. I always wondered what would happen if some nutcase terrorist got a hold of something like that.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/zombie.htm

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun Tzu 

Very interesting Pointman.  Yeah as a biologist and a devout Christian I can only believe in chemically created dead things coming after me as a form of entertainment requiring a suspension of disbelief.  But thats cool, I am good at that.  Ya have to in order to enjoy most television.   But chemical and bio agent induced violent psychosis is another matter.   We already have that and I have encountered it numerous times in the hospital where I work and elsewhere.   I could see that some day becoming an agent of war.
Forget nukes--thats the 'Good Old Days'.   The things that might be done in a bio war make nukes look comforting.

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."  Thomas Jefferson to George Washington. 1796

There is a running joke in the shop that December 2012 is when we'll have to face the Zombie Uprising, be it from a virus or whatever other cause.

Life is too serious to take seriously.

Swords, knives, and guns don't kill people.  Gaping holes in vital organs and exsanguination do.

"Healthy" is simply the slowest possible rate at which a person will die without assistance.

Zombie sheep eh, just like in the movie Black Sheep, described as violence of the lambs. Go ahead and google it , its a real movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sheep_(2007_film)

sometimes things just are not what they seem.

a carnivorous sheep. I can just picture the dumbstruck face of the coyote attempting to prey on it....


Gay Bomb???? 

BOOOOOOM!!!

Say Ralph, have i ever told you have the cutest dimples?!??!?!

You can choose to be a lion or a zebra in life. But, come morning, whether you're a lion or a zebra, you have to run like a motherf***** to survive.

So there really is a remote possibility of a real zombie invasion?!
Firearms should only be used when you’re at an impregnable fortress, when sniping a lone zombie without alerting others to your location(sound suppressed weapon), or about to be over run by multitude coming in from a bottleneck defensive position.
Firearms are too loud and will only attract unwanted attraction to your AO.
For a quick kill, swords, axes, spears, and machetes would offer a more unnoticeable dispatch.
 
I like the Chinese War sword.  It is the most ideal weapon for severing limbs and heads, as stabbing wouldn’t be effective with the walking dead.  I don’t think any blade that isn’t able to cut off limbs at one strike will be effective against zombies.  Therefore, knives less than 12in in blade length won’t be of much use.  Throwing knives, arrows and crossbows also will be of limited use unless your skill is adequate enough to hit a moving, head size target consistently.

Don't forget about my militia. Its better to be part of a team then on your own when Z day comes. http://zombiehuntersmarinecorps.wetpaint.com/

I downloaded the Black Sheep from net flix, it was funny and sad but for all the wrong reasons.

A zombie hunter militia? Wow… I can just imagine the conversation in the Operation Ferret office (Joint task force with the ATF, DEA US Marshals headed by the FBI to investigate the interstate trade in illegal class III firearm parts and possible narcotics trafficking among the “Radical Groups” known as militias).
Task Commander: Ok well we have one group left. Special Agent Pogue, we want you to look into this Zombie hunting militia.
Agent Pogue: The what? Your serious? Is this like the time you sent me to the airport for a bucket of tarmac, or to the parts store for blinker fluid?
Task Commander: No, this is because you backed over the little old lady at the Amnesty International rally in front of the FOX NEWS van.
Section Chief: Or it could be because you lost your sidearm and shoulder rig in the men’s room at the Mc Donald’s over by the Mall.
Lead Agent: Yet again it could be for the time you frisked the Papa John’s delivery boy while we were on stake out and then told him not to tell the people at the motel across the street in room 144 that we are over here.
Uncomfortable silence, some nervous foot shuffling.
Disclaimer: any resemblance to any one alive or dead is purely coincidental, if is dose remind you of an agent, then you might have been in the Hoover building in spring of 07, and have a pretty good idea of who I am talking about

Pointman


A zombie hunter militia? Wow… I can just imagine the conversation in the Operation Ferret office (Joint task force with the ATF, DEA US Marshals headed by the FBI to investigate the interstate trade in illegal class III firearm parts and possible narcotics trafficking among the “Radical Groups” known as militia).
Task Commander: Ok well we have one group left. Special Agent Pogue, we want you to look into this Zombie hunting militia.
Agent Pogue: The what? Your serious? Is this like the time you sent me to the airport for a bucket of tarmac, or to the parts store for blinker fluid?
Task Commander: No, this is because you backed over the little old lady at the Amnesty International rally in front of the FOX NEWS van.
Section Chief: Or it could be because you lost your sidearm and shoulder rig in the men’s room at the Mc Donald’s over by the Mall.
Lead Agent: Yet again it could be for the time you frisked the Papa John’s delivery boy while we were on stake out and then told him not to tell the people at the motel across the street in room 144 that we are over here.
Uncomfortable silence, some nervous foot shuffling.
Disclaimer: any resemblance to any one alive or dead is purely coincidental, if is dose remind you of an agent, then you might have been in the Hoover building in spring of 07, and have a pretty good idea of who I am talking about

The Zombie Hunters Marine Corps does not do any thing illegal its just one of the many (just in case groups). I was wanting to know why people compare militia to terrorists so much now. If it were not for people banning together when attack there would be no U.S.A because we would have lost the revolution. Militia are a big part of American society the U.S. Gov. even supports militia like the Civil Air Patrol which I spent 2 years in.

Because the Elites do not WANT the peasants banding together.  They are in power now and they do not want a revolution any more than King George did.  (England had a long and proud Militia history, we inherited the idea from them and when our ENGLISH founding fathers were hindered in having a Militia it was an affront to their rights as Englishmen.)
So now just as then there has been a deliberate orchestrated propaganda campaign to make 'Militia' a bad word by associating it with anyone dangerous or crazy.   The same thing has been done with the term "Right Wing"  (the Russian hard line Communists and the Taliban are called "Right Wing").
 
I said now as then----do you know where the song Yankee Doodle Dandy came from ?
It was made up to MOCK the Militia.   Then after kicking some Redcoat butt the Militia came back singing it as a "In your FACE !"

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."  Thomas Jefferson to George Washington. 1796

i believe than if we need an elite anti-zombie squad they should be made of martial art expert and snipers.

why martial art expert ?: they don't need ammo
what kind recommended ?: riot control , spartan combat, technique
(shield, machete, tonfa, full kevlar armor) 

why sniper ? : they don't need a lot of ammo, no waste of bullet because theyr precision is close of 100% 
what kind of weapon? : any that use a common kind of ammo (the more common the ammo is, the easier is to get it anywhere you are ) and have a great precision at medium and long range.